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As one of the most powerful businesspeople in China, Dong Mingzhu is revered as a mixture of Donald Trump and Margaret Thatcher. CLIFFORD COONANmeets the woman who hasn’t taken a holiday in almost 20 years

DONG MINGZHU is one of China’s most influential businesspeople, but appears a slight, reticent figure as she sits in the vast concourse of Gree Electric’s headquarters
in southern China.